Show cot cost of elephant elephants it Is somewhat tome what interesting to compare the weights carried by elephants in the tin producing dist districts rieta ot of the malay peninsula with those used in the long journeys and mountainous country of the lao states in the peninsula the distan distances ces are seldom more than at most three or four days march marolt and the ele is expected to carry as much as or 1 I pounds besides his mahout and howdah the latter is a mere brace of panniers pan pai milers dung together so as to rest one on each side of the backbone and covered sometimes with a light barrel root roof of bark A good tusker car tying 9 hundredweight will fetch about ea and a female which can bear eight hundredweight is worth about 45 in the lao states where journeys ot of ten days or three weeks are frequent tho the average weight hardly exceeds pounds or one third of what is usual in the peninsula the prices in various parts of the country vary considerably when we were on the me Hawn kaeng gand and la muang nan in 1898 1893 a good tusker tasker could be bad had for sa and a female for 24 at chieng chiong mal alai where good teak hauling elephants ore are in groat great demand a tusker may fetch aco and I 1 a female anything from 50 to according to her strength and ability geography Geo graph leal ical journal the great 11 illace kiowa offer a cl al lenge of 10 wo to produce the equal of 0 the nelson I 1 amily of 0 its it and th pittsburg chronicle asserts that thi m 11 1 never be talent ta Lenaa as the m orld don t con i tarn tain anoil er auch such famil |